News and Views: Human Rights Advocacy
- Opening two-week session, UN indigenous forum tackles land, resource issues (UN News)
- The True Meaning of Mother's Day (Portside)
- Proposed U.N. Women's Agency Gains Key Ally (Thalif Deen, Inter Press Service)
- Global Strategies for Change Project: Call for participation in research study (Association for Women's Rights in Development)
- Women's Learning Partnership Announces Event at World Social Forum (January 21, 2007)
- U.N. Ambassador's Oily Past (Phyllis Bennis, TomPaine.com)
- ARGENTINA: Women Have a New Tool against Discrimination (Marcela Valente, Inter Press Service)
- Afghan Women Demand Protection in Wake of Official's Death (Aaron Glantz, OneWorld US)
- Gender Violence a Universal Norm, Says U.N. (Thalif Deen, Inter Press Service)
- World Social Forum: What They'll Talk About in 2007 (Joyce Mulama, Inter Press Service)
- REMINDER: Women as Equal Citizens: Advocating for Change in Muslim-Majority Societies (Sept. 6, Washington DC)
- The Future Of The AIDS Fight (Naina Dhingra, TomPaine.com)
- Women Matter - In All of the Millennium Goals (Marcela Valente, Inter Press Service)
- Start Talking to Hezbollah (Lakhdar Brahimi, New York Times Op-Ed)
- More UN officials deplore violence in Sri Lanka as toll on children rises (UN News)
- RIGHTS: Native People Demand Self-Determination (Haider Rizvi, Inter Press Service)
- Ceasefire and Frustration (Ian Williams, The Nation)
- Israel Responsible for Qana Attack (Human Rights Watch)
- The UN's Mideast Mission (Ian Williams, The Nation)
- UN: Attacks Qualify as War Crimes, Officials Say (Warren Hoge, The New York Times)
- UN Human Rights Council adopts documents on disappearances and indigenous peoples (UN News)
- A Flagging Commitment on AIDS (New York Times Editorial)
- UN Forum on indigenous issues looks to new Human Rights Council (UN News)
- UN launches Programme of Action for 2nd Decade for Indigenous Peoples (UN News)
- UN expert on rights of indigenous peoples to revisit Guatemala after four years (UN News)
- UN Reform for the Rest of Us: An Agenda for Grassroots Accountability (Michael Kagan, Foreign Policy in Focus)
- General Assembly elects first members to new Human Rights Council (UN News)
- Women's Rights and Development (Society for International Development)
- April 29: March for Peace, Justice and Democracy
- U.N. Urged to Create Separate Agency for Women (Thalif Deen, Inter Press Service)
- 10,000 protest at water summit (AlJazeera.Net)
- WATER: Women Have a Crucial Role to Play (Diego Cevallos, Inter Press Service)
- AIDS scourge in Africa shows urgent need for new women’s agency: UN envoy (UN News)
- A New Spin on Fighting for Justice (Kelly Hearn, AlterNet)
- Women in Darfur Look to ICC (Christine Butegwa, Institute for War and Peace Reporting)
- Human Rights Hypocrisy (Marjorie Cohen, t r u t h o u t)
- Empowering women is key to development, Fréchette tells UN Commission (UN News)
- United Nations: U.S. Aligned With Iran in Anti-Gay Vote
- WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Violence Against Women in the Dock (Patricia Grogg, Inter Press Service)
- U.N. Blasts Practice of Outsourcing Torture (Thalif Deen, Inter Press Service)
- Security Council urges protecting women in war, empowering them as peacemakers (UN News)
- The 10th AWID International Forum on Women's Rights and Development (October 27-30, Thailand)
- Roars and Whispers, Gender and Poverty: Promises vs. Action (Social Watch Report 2005)
- 10th AWID International Forum on Women’s Rights and Development (October 27-30 in Bangkok)
- Bush Jihad Against UNFPA Enters Fourth Year (Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service)
- Women Under Siege, At Home and Abroad (Katherine Stapp, Inter Press Service)
- Poverty Fight May Be Subverted at U.N. Summit (Thalif Deen, Inter Press Service)
- UN Spells Out the Stark Choice: Do More for World's Poor or Face Disaster (Larry Elliott, The Guardian)
- UN marks International Literacy Day as key to sustainable development (UN News)
- A Declaration Of War (Phyllis Bennis, TomPaine.com)
- The US vs The UN (David Usborne, The Independent)
- MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS: Glossing Over Women's Issues (Qurratul Ain Tahmina, Inter Press Service)
- How The G8 Lied To The World On Aid (Mark Curtis, ZNet)
- MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS: Moving Backwards (Gustavo Capdevila, Inter Press Service)
- U.N. Summit Neglects Clean Water, Say Experts (Thalif Deen, Inter Press Service)
- Global Anti-Poverty Campaign Hangs in the Balance (Haider Rizvi, Inter Press Service)
- UN marks indigenous people’s day with call for action against discrimination (UN News)
- Landmark civil society forum on conflict prevention wraps up at UN (UN News)
- At the U.N., a Growing Republican Presence (Colum Lynch, Washington Post)
- July 1 - International White Band Day (Global Call to Action Against Poverty)
- UN marks World Day to Combat Desertification, focusing on women's contributions (UN News)
- Peruvian Women Denounce Economic Social Cultural Rights Violations (Gabriela de Cicco, AWID)
- Armed conflicts leading cause of world hunger emergencies (Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations)
- MADRE joins over 300 organizations in signing letter to new World Bank President, Paul Wolfowitz (50 Years is Enough)
- UN Opens Two-week Forum on Indigenous Issues to Consider Ways Forward (UN News)
- MADRE Signs Letter to Bush Opposing Restrictions on US Funding to Combat HIV/AIDS and Trafficking
- State of the World's Children 2005 (UNICEF Report)
- Written Out: How Sexuality is Used to Attack Women's Organizing (A report from the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission and the Center for Women’s Global Leadership)
- Women’s Rights Eroding in Latin America (Laura Carlsen, Americas Program, International Relations Center (IRC))